Task 2. a) Read and review the vocabulary

Task 1. Read the text and fill in the table.

Many man, many minds. All people are different and so they prefer spending their free time in different ways. What time can be called our leisure time? It’s the period when we are not busy with our daily jobs or house chores.

Leisure time can be spent at home, when you relax in front of the TV or chat with your friends over the phone. Many teens spend most of their free time playing computer games, surfing Internet, blogging or in social nets. Social networks can be a great home on the web, can help you connect with people or reconnect with long-lost friends, and can even help your career by making business contacts. Social networks range from friends-based networks like Facebook and MySpace to music and movie networks like Flixster and Last.FM to business social networks like LinkedIn and XING. Another popular way of spending your leisure time today is skyping with friends, listening or downloading music, sometimes, when your friends come to visit, you may play cards or such board games as chess, checkers, dominoes, Scrabble or Monopoly. Many people relax when they complete the puzzles.

Another popular way of spending your free time is going out in the city or in the country. In the city there are numerous places to go — a park, a zoo, a circus, an aquarium, a botanical garden, a planetarium, a stadium, cinema, theatre, museums and exhibitions. Many people enjoy going to a bowling club, skating rink, eating out, window-shopping, visiting amusement parks or just hanging out with friends.

In my free time I often…
In my free time I sometimes…
In my free time I never…

Many people have a hobby to fill their free time. Experts consider hobbies a perfect way of relieving stress. They say hobbies are interesting stress busters. Hobby is the activity which is a break away from the real world of routine and monotony. Hobbies are divided into five large groups: doing things, making things, collecting things, learning things and keeping pets.

Doing	Making	Collecting	Learning
· Sports and games · Outdoor activities · Playing computer games · Indoor gardening (house plants) · Gardening	· Making collages · Crochet · Embroidery · Jewellery making · Knitting · Origami · Quilting · Soap-making sculpture	· Artwork · Autographs · Books · Calendars · Coins · Photographs · Postcards/Posters · Quotes · Toys	· Reading · Practice playing the musical instrument · Internet surfing · Join the English club

b) Read the text about keeping pets. Which one would you like to have? Why?

Many families have a pet — especially when there are children. Common pets in Ukraine are cats and dogs, but also rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, birds (such as budgies or parrots) and fish. There are fewer exotic pets, as these are often expensive. People often get a young animal as a pet, some people buy their pet from a pet shop, others take it from friends.

If you have a pet, you’re responsible for its training and welfare. You’ll need to house-train a puppy so that it doesn’t use the floor as its toilet. Cats are much quicker to learn. Just place a cat box with cat litter in it near the cat, and it will almost immediately understand that this will be its toilet.

There are dog-training schools (where your dog can learn how to obey commands like ‘Sit!’, ‘Heel!’ or ‘Fetch!’) as well as behave well with other dogs. Good welfare means feeding your pet properly, and taking it for annual check-ups and vaccinations at a vet’s (animal doctor) or making sure it has regular exercise and stimulation. You’ll need to walk your dog at least once a day, and if you have an indoors cat, it will need toys and scratching posts to prevent it from ruining your furniture.

Task 3. Complete the phrases with a verb: do; eat; get, go for a walk, listen to; read; rent; watch.

1. __________ a DVD, a video.

2. __________ a magazine, a newspaper.

3. __________ in, out.

4. __________ some exercise, fit.

5. __________ music, the radio.

6. __________ walk, run.

7. __________ yoga, an activity.

8. __________ a film, a match.

Task 4. What character traits can a hobby develop in a person?

1 Daring	AI can exercise for a long time, I’ve become strong and healthy.
2 Creative	BI can stay calm for a long time and I don’t get annoyed when smth. takes a long time.
3 Inquisitive	CI became good in drawing/painting/singing/sculpture.
4 Patient	DI give much attention to what I’m doing, it helps me avoid mistakes.
5 Energetic	E I can plan all my activities, not only free time.
6 Artistic	F I pay a lot of attention to things, I love watching.
7 Careful	G I’m able to invent things and create new ideas.
8 Flexible	H I have a lot of enthusiasm and determination, I’m active and never tired.
9 Observant	I I can easily change and adapt to different situations.
10 Fit	J Everything interests me, I google and look up many things and ideas.
11 Well-organised	K I love new experience, want to do difficult things.

Task 5. Match the expressions (A–F) to the explanations (1–6).

1A culture vulture	A This person is into the hobby and spends a lot of time at the projects.
2 A couch potato	B Every time s/he goes off one pastime and takes another.
3 A dabbler	C This person is addicted to shopping, if there is no money, window shopping is OK to.
4 A real doer	D This person is hooked on culture — he goes to a theatre or gallery any free time.
5 A shopaholic	E This person gets up to computer at any time of the day and is often hooked on computer games.
6 A computer man	F This person locks himself for hours in front of the TV and is physically inactive.

Task 6. Which leisure activities do you associate with these words?

1. ticket, orchard, Mozart-- _________

2. clowns, acrobats, animals -- _____________

3. gallery, painting, sculptures -- ______________

4. music, food, friends, a cake with candles -- _______________

5. actor, play, stage -- ____________

6. sun, sand, relaxation -- ________________

7. camera, places of interest, bus --_____________

8. evening, dancing, going out --______________

9. fire, river, fish -- __________________.

Task 7. Read the extracts from newspaper reviews. What leisure activities are they about?

1. This was a complete of an evening. The script was awful, the acting was woolen, and the camerawork was dreadful.

2. It was a terrific evening. The goal scored by “Manchester United” will go down in history as one of the very best.

3. The food wasn’t too bad but the music was disgusting. It was impossible to dance to it. And you couldn’t either: so loud music was!

4. The prices were rather high but you got the best service for your money. There was a swimming pool, a sauna, several case, a cinema, a disco club and what not. So it was a real floating town!

Task 8. a) Tastes differ, lifestyles differ, personalities differ. Psychologists say that people may be divided into personality types. Read the texts below and define which personality types the people in them belong to: an outdoor type; a social type (people’s person); a workaholic; a home lover; a culture-vulture; a loner.

John: I wake up at half past five and study company reports in bed. I go to work at half past seven. I never leave the office before nine o’clock at night. I don’t go out in the week because I’m too. I’m a manager and I read management books in my free time. I usually work at home at the weekend.

Dave: I usually get up at 7.30 on Saturday and run in the park before breakfast. I’m always back home by 8.30. My brother Steve is still asleep at the time, he never gets up before ten. He usually has coffee and toast for breakfast. I never drink coffee so I drink juice and cereal. My brother calls mea health freak. Most Saturdays I go shopping with my parents. My brother hates shopping, he doesn’t like crowds. He is always at home on Saturday. He sometimes plays the guitar in his room or listens to his CDs.

Daisy: My husband is a very rich man so I don’t have to work. I think that the best way to spend your time is to travel and see all the “musts” in different countries. The next three years of my life are already planned. I’m going to ShriLanka and Nepal, China and Mongolia. As you see I’m not interested in dear old Europe any longer. I’ve been all around it several times. It has nothing new for me. I’m looking forward to new impressions and experiences. Besides all my friends have already visited most of these places of being there and seeing this and that. It’s a shame that I don’t have as many souvenirs from all those places as they do. And now, if you excuse me, I must hurry. It’s the presentation of Tony Foticelli’s exhibition tonight. I don’t know anything about him but everybody who is somebody will be there.

b) Do you want to know what you are really like? Are you a social type, “a people’s person”, a loner or a home lover? Do this questionnaire to find out.

Do you like…	I love	I really like	I like	I don’t mind	I don’t like	I hate
talking to friends?
going out with friends?
spending time alone?
meeting new people?
going on holiday alone?
going to parties?
staying at home?

Answers:

0—14: You are a real loner. Maybe you don’t like people very much. You really like spending time on your own. Try to spend more time with your family and friends and relax with them.

15—31: Maybe your social life isn’t very busy but it’s fine for you and you have some good friends. Your friends are important to you and you like spending time with them. You like going out and meeting new people sometimes, but you also like staying in and having quiet evenings, maybe alone.

32-42: You really like people and they really like you. You have a busy social life and often go out with friends or telephone them because you don’t like spending time on your own. This is OK but learn to enjoy time alone as well.

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